Linear A and Linear B, linear forms of writing used by certain Aegean civilizations during the 2nd millennium bc. Linear A is attested in Crete and on some Aegean islands from approximately 1850 bc to 1400 bc. Its relation to the so-called hieroglyphic Minoan script is uncertain. It is a syllabic script written from left to right. The approximate phonetic values of most syllabic signs …

The a’s, b’s, and c’s are constants determined by the capacities, needs, costs, profits, and other requirements and restrictions of the problem.The basic assumption in the application of this method is that the various relationships between demand and availability are linear; that is, none of the x i is raised to a power other than 1. In order to obtain the solution to this problem, it ...

For simple linear regression, the least squares estimates of the model parameters β 0 and β 1 are denoted b 0 and b 1. Using these estimates, an estimated regression equation is constructed: ŷ = b 0 + b 1 x. The graph of the estimated regression equation for simple linear regression is a straight line approximation to the relationship ...

In collaboration with A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, who were graduates at Columbia, Morgan quickly developed the Drosophila work into a large-scale theory of heredity. Particularly important in this work was the demonstration that each Mendelian gene could be assigned a specific position along a linear chromosome “map.”

Dionysus, also spelled Dionysos, also called Bacchus or (in Rome) Liber Pater, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. The occurrence of his name on a Linear B tablet (13th century bce) shows that he was already worshipped in the Mycenaean period, although it is not known where his cult …

auteur theory, theory of filmmaking in which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture. Arising in France in the late 1940s, the auteur theory—as it was dubbed by the American film critic Andrew Sarris—was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc. A foundation stone of the French cinematic movement known as the …

The equality of two vectors a and b is denoted by the usual symbolic notation a = b, and useful definitions of the elementary algebraic operations on vectors are suggested by geometry.Thus, if AB = a in Figure 1 represents a displacement of a particle from A to B and subsequently the particle is moved to a position C, so that BC = b, it is clear that the displacement from A to C …

polarity, in chemical bonding, the distribution of electrical charge over the atoms joined by the bond. Specifically, while bonds between identical atoms, as in H2, are electrically uniform in the sense that both hydrogen atoms are electrically neutral, bonds between atoms of different elements are electrically inequivalent. In hydrogen chloride, for example, the hydrogen atom is …

genetic code, the sequence of nucleotides in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) that determines the amino acid sequence of proteins. Though the linear sequence of nucleotides in DNA contains the information for protein sequences, proteins are not made directly from DNA. Instead, a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule is synthesized from the DNA and …

communication, the exchange of meanings between individuals through a common system of symbols. This article treats the functions, types, and psychology of communication. For a treatment of animal communication, see animal behaviour. For further treatment of the basic components and techniques of human communication, see language; speech; writing. For …